Twin bombs tore into crowds watching the World Cup final in the Uganda capital, killing 64 and wounding scores on Sunday,
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/ 13 September 2009
Police have arrested more than 550 people in connection with two days of riots in Uganda’s capital Kampala.
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/ 11 September 2009
Gunshots rang out in Uganda’s capital Kampala on Friday and at least two people were killed as security forces clashed with rioters for a second day
SuperSport United coach Gavin Hunt is taking no chances when the PSL champions meet their Ugandan counterparts Kampala City Council on Friday.
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/ 21 January 2009
Uganda’s Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled that death sentences be commuted to life imprisonment after three years in jail.
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/ 16 January 2009
Illegal trade and overfishing in Lake Victoria have led to fish scarcities in Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania.
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/ 22 October 2008
Leaders from three major African trading blocs met in the Ugandan capital on Wednesday met to push for a single market.
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/ 22 September 2008
Producing baskets and mats in central Uganda had traditionally been the work of women. Now this practice is used to fight poverty.
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/ 17 September 2008
The Ugandan minister for primary healthcare tells Madeleine Bunting of his ambitions for the country.
Ugandan authorities have launched a mass circumcision drive with the hope it will reduce HIV/Aids rates in the East African country.
Ugandan journalist Fredrick Mugira recounts the bike ride of his life on one of Kampala’s famous boda boda motorbike taxies.
Circumcision without anaesthetic and in full view of friends and family is still the done thing in parts of Uganda.
Ugandan rebels have killed 23 people including 14 south Sudanese soldiers and ”started war”, a south Sudanese minister said on Saturday.
Global price rises and floods last year have caused severe food shortages in north-east Uganda, where nearly 30 people have died and some have been reduced to eating rats. The deaths occurred in the remote Karamoja region, an impoverished area that is notorious for fighting over livestock and scant resources.
Uganda’s Lord’s Resistance Army rebels have abducted at least 100 children from neighbouring countries to use as sex slaves and porters, an international human rights group said on Monday. Peace talks between Uganda and the rebels appeared to stall last month when LRA leader Joseph Kony failed to appear at a signing ceremony.
Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have agreed to re-mark their common border, increasingly the subject of dispute since oil prospecting began on Lake Albert last year. Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni and his Congolese counterpart, Joseph Kabila, met in Tanzanian city Dar es Salaam over the weekend to defuse tensions.
Uganda’s fugitive guerrilla Joseph Kony will meet mediators on Saturday on the Sudan-Democratic Republic of Congo border and may even sign a final peace deal, a rebel negotiator said on Wednesday. But the leader of the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) still wants more details on how Uganda’s government plans to use traditional reconciliation rituals to help him avoid prosecution.
Donors funding a multimillion-dollar peace process in Uganda have urged the rebel Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) to show commitment to ending a two-decade conflict after its leader failed to sign a deal last week. Hopes of ending one of Africa’s longest conflicts were dashed when LRA leader Joseph Kony failed to appear at a signing ceremony.
Uganda’s army have killed 13 armed Karamojong tribal warriors in two separate attempted raids in the north-east of the country, a military spokesperson said on Thursday. ”Some warriors were going to raid and loot the trading centre,” said Henry Obbo, army spokesperson for north-east Uganda.
Sobbing Ugandan parents sifted through the ashes of a school dormitory on Tuesday, trying in vain to identify their daughters from the piles of charred piles left by a fire that broke out overnight. Police said that the fire killed at least 19 schoolgirls and two adults and may have been set deliberately.
An overnight fire that destroyed a primary school dormitory in Uganda, killing 19 schoolgirls and two adults, may have been set deliberately, police said on Tuesday. ”Preliminary investigations indicate that it was homicide,” police Inspector General Kale Kaihura told reporters at the scene.
The leader of Uganda’s Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) rebels has delayed signing a peace deal in a setback to efforts to end one of Africa’s longest conflicts, officials and sources involved in talks said on Tuesday. Fugitive LRA chief Joseph Kony was due to sign a final peace accord on Thursday near his hide-out, but was reported to be sick.
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/ 27 February 2008
Uganda’s Lord’s Resistance Army guerrillas attacked a remote Sudanese village, killing 11 people and abducting 27 others, but the attack would not endanger peace talks under way, the military said on Wednesday. The attack on February 19 saw a group of LRA fighters make an incursion on the Sudanese town of Source Yubu.
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/ 25 February 2008
Uganda on Monday accused Lord’s Resistance Army rebels of breaking a truce by attacking civilians in the Central African Republic, threatening apparent progress at talks to end one of the continent’s longest wars. Representatives of the guerrilla group denied the allegation.
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/ 24 February 2008
The Ugandan government said it had signed a permanent ceasefire accord with the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) rebel group on Saturday, a landmark step in efforts to end more than two decades of civil war. Government delegation spokesperson Captain Chris Magezi called the accord ”another major breakthrough”.
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/ 22 February 2008
Ugandan rebels have walked out of peace talks because the government refused their demands for senior government posts, a rebel spokesperson said on Friday. The two sides have been meeting in Sudan-mediated peace talks since July 2006 in an effort to resolve a brutal 20-year insurgency in northern Uganda.
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/ 20 February 2008
Uganda is officially free of the deadly Ebola virus, which killed 37 people in the East African country last year, the Health Ministry said on Wednesday. Forty-two days passed with no new infections — long enough to be sure that there were no cases still in the incubation stage, said the country’s Health Minister, Dr Steven Malinga.
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/ 18 February 2008
Uganda’s Anglican Church threatened on Monday to secede from the rest of the 77-million member fellowship unless United States clergy condemn homosexuality. The announcement was the latest salvo in a fierce debate about homosexuality that has gripped the global Anglican Communion.
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/ 14 February 2008
Ugandan marine police have found 30 bodies in Lake Victoria in eastern Uganda after two boats collided earlier this week, police said on Thursday. ”We have called off the operations after recovering 30 bodies from the lake,” said Christopher Kubayi, regional police commander in eastern Uganda.
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/ 30 January 2008
A six-storey school under construction in the Ugandan capital, Kampala, collapsed on Wednesday, killing 15 workers, police said. Police spokesperson Gabriel Tibayungwa said more than 30 workers were buried when the building, Saint Peter’s Secondary School on the outskirts of Kampala, collapsed.
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/ 17 January 2008
Fuel and basic commodity shortages in landlocked countries neighbouring Kenya, which is wracked by political unrest, have eased but traders are hoarding supplies and prices have risen steeply. Kenya is the gateway to several other eastern African nations such as Burundi, Rwanda, Uganda and Southern Sudan.
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/ 27 December 2007
Isolation wards for Ebola patients in western Uganda are now empty, a senior health official said on Thursday, voicing hope that the killer fever was finally receding. Sam Okware, who heads the national task force on the outbreak, said a patient admitted on December 22 was the only one in the Bundibugyo hospital’s isolation wards.